On the surface, the whole question was purely feudal.

On the whole, it appears that they do not favor their own social classes in an explicit way.

On their frequent hikes into the nearby mountains, the children carry whole grains to munch along the trail.

On the other hand, you may seek His favor, humble yourself before Him and beg His mercy, implore His forgiveness, forsake your sins, and abandon your whole life to Him.

On the whole this is an interesting and exceptionally well-written book.

On the whole, audiences will like this performance.

On the whole, however, one must wonder at just what it is that forces a beloved artist to besmirch her own reputation as time marches inexorably on.

On Friday, April 20, 2007 Pope Benedict XVI, abolished the whole idea saying he " showed doubt about the concept of limbo ".

* On the British game show BrainTeaser, contestants are shown a word broken into randomly arranged segments and must announce the whole word.

On one occasion, Galba's mother-in-law gave Agrippina, in a whole bevy of married women, a public reprimand and a slap in the face.

On the whole, however, the reign of Alexander was prosperous until the rise, in the east, of the Sassanids.

On his account, the agent should choose the sort of life that will, on the whole, produce the best overall effects.

On the whole the book contains nothing that is not to be found in previous publications, particularly in the investigations of Bohr.

The whole, however, may be judged from this fragment: " We Irish, though dwelling at the far ends of the earth, are all disciples of St. Peter and St. Paul ... we are bound to the Chair of Peter, and although Rome is great and renowned, through that Chair alone is she looked on as great and illustrious among us ... On account of the two Apostles of Christ, you pope are almost celestial, and Rome is the head of the whole world, and of the Churches ".

The relation he there gives of the miracle is as follows: " On the nones ( or 7th ) of May, about the third hour, ( or nine in the morning ,) a vast luminous body, in the form of a cross, appeared in the heavens, just over the holy Golgotha, reaching as far as the holy mount of Olivet, ( that is, almost two English miles in length ,) seen not by one or two persons, but clearly and evidently by the whole city.

On those nights, he would play his guitar until he fell asleep holding it, a habit which lasted his whole life.

On the whole, Eisenhower's support of the embryonic space program was lukewarm until the Soviet launch of Sputnik.

On making the last pass, each dancer makes a whole turn on the end, bearing right if the last pass was by the right shoulder or left if last pass was by the left, and reenters the figure returning to place.

It was because of Eusebius that " On the whole, Constantine and his successors made life pretty miserable for Church leaders committed to the Nicene decision and its Trinitarian formula.

On 17 January 2008, the Judge of the 17th Federal Court of Minas Gerais State forbade the sales of the game in the whole Brazilian territory.

On the whole, the Hanafi school of jurisprudence could be said to have the most differences with other three schools.

On the whole, therefore, the evidence seems to me to be clear that this passage is not a genuine portion of the inspired writings, and should not be appealed to in proof of the doctrine of the Trinity.

On at least two occasions ( 255 and 253 BC ) whole fleets were destroyed in bad weather ; the disaster off Camarina in 255 BC counted two hundred seventy ships and over one hundred thousand men lost, the greatest single loss in history.

On Fridays, the day when many Persians relax with poetry, talk, and a samovar, people do not, it is true, stream into Chehel Sotun -- a pavilion and garden built by Shah Abbas 2, in the seventeenth century -- but they do retire into hundreds of pavilions throughout the city and up the river valley, which are smaller, more humble copies of the former.

On the way they tried to discover all they could about Burma, and they were disturbed to find that Michael Symes's book had not presented an altogether true picture.

On Sunday they refused to attend church.

On the evening that they were to sail, Lewis himself gave a party, but he was too indisposed to appear at it.

On his bookshelves were some of the latest American novels, including Bellow's Seize The Day, but he hadn't read them ( they were sent by American publishers ) and wasn't especially interested in what the American writers were up to.

On these they feel they can rely.

On ships at sea, on railroad trains, in summer hotels with mountain views, they always said, `` I've never done this before ''.

On Christmas night, they had had a disagreement about it.

On the other hand, it is no interference with sovereignty to point out defects where they exist, such as that a plan calls for factories without power to run them, or for institutions without trained personnel to staff them.

On this point there was fairly general agreement that assessors would like to do more than they are doing now.

On the basis of what they give us we can know how the young Caruso sang, appreciate the distinctive qualities of Parsifal under Karl Muck's baton, or sense the type of ensemble Toscanini created in his years with the New York Philharmonic.

On the death of their father, they returned to their home in Batavia, New York.

On their way, they stopped at every gas station along the main boulevards to question the attendants.

On May 19, a deputy sheriff's posse of eight men left Maxwell City and rode thirty-five miles up the Vermejo where they were joined by Juan Jose Martinez.

On November 24th, they had made a raid on La Maddalena.

On the one hand, there are ecumenists who are so stirred by the crises of the church in its encounter with the world at large that they have no eyes for what the church is doing in their own town.

On the surface, this seems a sound approach to Christian mission: members of the congregation show by their friendly attitudes that they care for new people ; ;

On the other hand, they, or it, seemed to have no legs whatever.

On Monday, the Hughes concern was formally declared bankrupt after its directors indicated they could not draw up a plan for reorganization.